One major obstacle to the revitalization of urban neighborhoods is title defects on abandoned properties.
One major obstacle to the revitalization of urban neighborhoods is title defects on abandoned properties.
A collaboration of urban and suburban churches and marketplace individuals working in a defined neighborhood (Wendell Phillips, Hickman Mills, KCK) to create a sustainable community where people want "to live not leave." Our focus areas
The Kansas City Soup Bowl the DOLOCOIN Mentoring Groups way of collecting food for those in need. Some of the workers on this project are children between the ages of 10 and 19.
The Nonprofit Village at 31w31 is a collaborative environment that aims to meet the baseline needs of small and medium size nonprofits so they can focus their energy on their mission and creating greater impact in the community.
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The Youth Leadership Cohort (YLC) seeks to identify high school students from Kansas City's urban core and immerse them in a leadership development curriculum.
Our tool library is a resource for people looking to do home repairs who currently do not own or have access to the necessary tools.
Working with community members in each neighborhood, HCA will identify up to three vacant lots to restore and conserve. HCA will work with the Land Bank to secure a lease on the lot.
The Troost Coalition project is a neighborhood initiated and led planning effort to control development that has contributed to the stagnation of Troost between 24th Street on the North to Volker Boulevard on the South for the last 60 years.
The Free Network Foundation envisions communications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively rather than by corporations or states.
Through its Troost Village Digital Reconciliation Project, Reconciliation Services (RS) will train and deploy Trained Neighbors Teaching (TNTs) to increase digital life skills, internet and computer access, and improve residents' ability to u
Turtle Hill Community Association, Inc.
Expansion of current community garden, and continued maintenance of berry bushes and fruit trees.
The Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design has established the Center for Neighborhoods in partnership with the State of Missouri and community partners to address the challenges facing neighborhoods in Kansas City, MO.
MU Extension has more than 50 specialists and educators working across all areas of communities: housing and environment, food & nutrition, youth development, financial education, community development, business development, horticulture and g
The Urban Ranger Corps summer session in the Manheim neighborhood helps to maintain the homes and property of the elderly. It also aids in the clearance and cleaning of vacant lots.
The LCA's vacant lots committee would like to lead the Longfellow neighborhood through a guided visioning process to imagine and plan how we can best utilize the four adjacent lots currently owned by the LCA.
2 or More will lead the effort to preserve and restore the historical Kansas City Workhouse at 20th and Vine into a multi-functional pocket park that will serve the community in multiple ways.
Once a month beginning March 2016, a group of youth and adults -- the CleanUp Squad -- will meet to pick up trash or plant a flower bed in their yards.
With Walk-Central-Avenue CABA will physically mark the walking distances along the sidewalks and will point commercial and educational areas of interest along the area.